OREANDA-NEWS. July 16, 2012. More than 1,000 clients are now registered on the FX market of Moscow Exchange.

Already 20 banks and brokerage firms provide direct access to trading on the Exchange's currency market for their clients, Russian and foreign legal entities and individuals.  So far this year, the FX market average daily trading volume has reached RUB438.5 billion, up almost 50% compared with the same period last year.  Volume of clients" transactions has made up over RUB5 trillion. Such the increase in the trading volume is the evidence of successful implementation of the direct access project on the FX market. In the first six months of 2012 turnover of the FX market was up 55% to RUB127.2 trillion (RUB82.3 trillion in the same period last year).